OCTOBER 27, 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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lot of chrysanthemums. Tlieir Mrs. H. 

 Robinson are particularly line. 



Some very fine long stemmed Ivojy 

 mums were noted at Bassett & Wash- 

 burn's. 



J. A. Budlong is quite strongly into 

 mums this year and is cutting some 

 excellent blooms. 



Archie Spencer, of Reinberg Bros., 

 finds supply and demand just about 

 equal and hasn't even the ghost of a 

 kick coming. 



E. C. Amling is receiving some extra 

 high grade carnations and finds quick 

 sale for them. 



E. H. Hunt ij also showing some- 

 thing fine in the way of fancy car- 

 nations. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving 

 some large consianments and are do- 

 ing a heavy shipping trade. 



Mr. Julius Kraft, of Kraft Plant 

 Tonic Co., Rockford. 111., was in the 

 city Tuesday. 



Messrs A. Herrington, Madison, N. 

 J.; John F. Cowell, Buffalo, N. Y., and 

 Emil Buettner. Park Kidge, 111., have 

 been invited to act as judges at the 

 coming exhibition. It is hoped all will 

 accept. 



At the coming exhibition Bassett & 

 Washburn will offer a special prize of 

 525.00 for the best basket of roses, re- 

 gardless of size. The only conditions 

 are that there shall be at least three 

 competitors and that the basket shall 

 ■foe worthy of a premium. Their idea 

 Is to encourage competition in ar- 

 rangement of flowers among the retail 

 florists. 



C. W. Marks, the boot and shoe man, 

 ■will offer a special premium of $2.5.00 

 ■for the best six varietiesj of carnations, 

 twelve blooms of each, to be grown by 

 the exhibitor. Mr. Marks is the owner 

 of the horse Joe Patchen. and loves 

 specimen carnations as well as horses. 



Bowling. 



Last Friday evening the Chicago 

 Florists' Bowling Club elected perma- 

 nent officers as follows: P. J. Haus- 

 wirth, Pres. : C. W. McKellar, Vice- 

 Pres. : John Degnan, Sec'y and Treas. 

 The selection of a Captain and official 

 scorer was deferred for action later. 



After the meeting two games were 

 played and the scores and averages ap- 

 pear below: 



1st. 2nd. Av. 



"W. Kieitllnpr 181 143 162 



P. J. Hausvvirtlr 129 177 l.i3 



•G. L. Grant 130 160 145 



Jno. Degnan i21 127 125 



■C. T\'. McKeLlar 98 145 121 



A. Lange 90 14S 119 



J. C. VauBhan 97 120 108 



B. Enders 9li ... 96 



A. Henderson . 73 108 90 



S. Sn^deker S3 75 79 



BUFFALO. 

 About Town. 



It is many years since we can re- 

 member seeing fine clumps of yellow 

 and pink dahlias in tlie gardens and at 

 their best almost the last week of Oc- 

 tober. The cool and wet time without 

 Jrost has just suited their coo! blood. 



Chrysanthemums are with us in abun- 

 dance and the demand and price about 

 the same as it has been for several 

 years past. The very earliest always 

 move at a paying price. I hope the 

 same will continue throughout the 

 whole season. Roses are fine in qual- 

 ity and carnations improving daily. 

 Now and again is seen a bunch of 

 white and pink bouvardia reminding 

 one of the trade as it was in the "Mid- 

 dle Ages." 



There have been numerous weddings, 

 all calling for more or less flowers and 

 decorations, none of them were of 

 great magnitude. A very large store 

 decoration was done this week on a 

 most elaborate scale by Joseph H. 

 Rebstock. As the grand store has a 

 front of 200 feet on Lafayette Square, 

 the effects of the decoration are very 

 fine. 



Among the Growers. 



We were laboring hard la = t week in 

 the "Sleepy Hollow" or rather ridge 

 of Corfu. We found the several firms 

 all filled up and looking promising. 

 Mrs. Tyrell's carnations and violets 

 never looked better. Mr. T. A. Webb 

 has some mums coming on and is al- 

 ways able to grow that grand variety. 

 Golden Wedding, without rust, which 

 in so many places is its ruin. His 

 four large houses devoted to carna- 

 tions are filled with Scott. Daybreak, 

 White Daybreak, a sport originating on 

 the place, and his promising scarlet, 

 Dorothy Sweet. 



Mr. Harry Edward's houses are all 

 carnations and so is Mr. Farnham's. 

 The hard working widow Giddings 

 has her four large houses tilled with 

 carnations and remarkably healthy 

 and vigorous they look: two smaller 

 houses are devoted to violets. She does 

 wonders, with the help of her young 

 man Phelps, and a fireman, to produce 

 what she does. Mrs. G. ships mostly 

 to Kasting, but has always a good sup- 

 ply on hand for her son, Edward Gid- 

 dings, the leading florist of that busy 

 little city of Gloversville, N. Y. 



At the Montrose Greenhouses. Alex- 

 ander Scott, manager, you can see a 

 long house of mums which if nothing 

 happens he expects to be "corkers." 

 Two houses of violets are receiving al- 

 most as much care as his baby girls 

 and he is properly proud of the health, 

 and condition of his carnation houses. 

 He says Flora Hill and Evelina are 

 both grand, and Genease that came 

 quite small at first is coming now 

 with a rush and promises to rival its 

 last year's grand performance. Among 

 reds, Red Jacket is doing fine, and it's 

 a great pleasure to pick the massive 

 Bradt and long stemmed Victor. Aleck 

 does not talk bowling or think it or 

 play it or any other frivolity, so he is 

 able to devote much of his thoughts 

 and energies to his charge. 



The conservatories at South Park are 

 going up now in earnest and a most 

 imposing pile they are. Much to Mr. 

 Cowell's relief half a dozen of the 

 smaller compartments will be ready 



for occupancy in a very few weeks. 

 When this really grand range is com- 

 plete I shall take pleasure in sending 

 you a view of it and description of its 

 arrangement. Our Park board has 

 taken a severe turn for economy of 

 late and refused an appropriation for 

 two more propagating houses at the 

 North Park, which are now badly 

 needed to prepare for the immense 

 quantity of bedding plants now used. 

 I visited them a few days ago and 

 never remember seeing them in better 

 order, full to overflowing, but in ex- 

 cellent condition, most creditable to 

 the busy superintendent, Capt. Braik, 

 and his gardener, John Cameron. 



Notes. 



A sad accident occurred on Thurs- 

 day which makes a sad home in the 

 family of one of our florists, Mr, Bern- 

 er, of the firm of Schwert & Berner, of 

 Cheektonaga. The speedy "Black Dia- 

 mond." of the Lehigh Valley Road, in 

 its flight to New York and Philadel- 

 phia, ran into a little crowd of boys 

 going home to their noon day lunch 

 from school and killed three little fel- 

 lows. Mr. Berner's son was one. He 

 has all our deepest sympathy. 



Charles Porter, for several years Mr. 

 S. A. Anderson's chief clerk and man- 

 ager, has bought out the store of 

 Henry Millatt. Mr. M. has departed 

 for Pleasant Hill. Mo., where with Mr. 

 Kellogg, we think, there will be good 

 scope to display his ability. 



Mr. E. B. Sage, of Red Rock, Pa., 

 was in town today. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The heavy receipt of roses coming 

 to this market last week has deei'eased 

 somewhat. The week just past found 

 demand good for all kinds of stock. 

 Three large conventions held here used 

 up nearly all the stock received, but 

 no increased price was asked by the 

 commission men. 



The weather was all but pleasant the 

 latter part of the week, rain and snow, 

 and quite cold which hurt transient 

 trade a great deal, still some of our 

 florists claim that business was good. 

 Four large, fashionable weddings 

 helped the West End trade, and the 

 conventions did the same for the down 

 town florists. 



Chrysanthemum blooms are begin- 

 ning to come in more freely. A week 

 ago a great many of our growers 

 feared their exhibition crop would not 

 be in shape for the show, but with 

 cold, clear weather, promised by our 

 weather clerk for this week, there 

 should be no fear in this respect. The 

 best blooms bring $:! per dozen, aver- 

 age price, $1..50. Southern grown stock 

 is coming in slowly, and in bad shape. 



The demand for Beauties is good, 

 first class stock bringing .$2 and .f2,.')0 

 per dozen, others, according to stems, 

 from $1 to $1.."pO. Smaller roses, sucli 

 as Bride, Maid, Meteor, Kaiserin, and 



